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Friedman On Inflation, Hanke on Hyperinflation
In 1966, Milton Friedman wrote, as he often did, some memorable lines that have entered the lexicon of economic quotables. As Friedman correctly put it in a book chapter titled “What Price Guideposts?”: “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, resulting from and accompanied by a rise in the quantity of money relative to output…. It follows that the only effective way to stop inflation is to restrain the rate of growth of the quantity of money.” While true, Friedman’s classic statement doesn’t tell us anything about what drives the growth of the money supply that fuels inflation. The ... (full story)
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